Green Guide: With Our Powers Combined
By Austen DiamondTwenty years ago, in the cartoon Captain Planet, a green-mulleted, blue-hued man’s fight to save the planet from pollution...
View ArticleGreen Guide: Green Trash
By Anna SullivanRealizing that the Salt Lake County Landfill could reach capacity in 50 years, the Salt Lake City Council and Mayor Ralph Becker want to extend the landfill’s life. In March, they...
View ArticleGreen Guide: Selling Green
By Austen DiamondIn Boston’s Fenway Park, the Green Monster is a hurdle for hitters trying to hit a home run. In the retail business, becoming genuinely green is its own type of monstrous challenge....
View ArticleGreen Guide 2010
By City Weekly StaffThere are many shades of green and no "best" way for someone to reduce his or her impact on Planet Earth...
View ArticleGreen Guide: Green Beer
By Ted SchefflerSquatters’ efforts to reduce its carbon footprint includes purchasing power from Rocky Mountain Power’s Blue Sky program; utilizing environmentally friendly products in its restaurants...
View ArticleGreen Guide: Pain in the Glass
By Jesse FruhwirthSince the dawning of modern recycling in the 1970s, glass has been the pariah commodity. Although it’s possible to do so, glass rarely gets recycled...
View ArticleGreen Guide: Two Sides of Being Green
By Austen DiamondThere are many shades of green, and no “best” way for someone to reduce his or her impact on Planet Earth.
View ArticleDon’t Flush!
By Shelly GuilloryOne of the bigger threats to the ecosystem may be sitting in your medicine cabinet ...
View ArticleAdventurous Eating
By Austen DiamondSlow food is all the rage, locavores roam the earth, canning is in again, men wear aprons, Mormon moms have food blogs...
View ArticleLimited Greens
By Wina SturgeonYes, you can have a garden, even if you only have a few square feet available. The secret: Think outside the row.
View ArticleGrowing Partners
By Austen DiamondJohn has a backyard waiting to be tilled and planted with a killer crop of veggies, but doesn’t have time or skills to make it bloom.
View ArticleThis Is Your Conscience Talking
By Austen DiamondFor consumers and businesses, now more than ever, “sustainability” means making the best decisions for the Earth.
View ArticleThe Green Giants
By Austen DiamondDespite being a smoker, Joni Mitchell has lived long enough to see her refrain from her 1960s song "Woodstock" come to pass...
View ArticleSilent Spring: The Next Generation
By John CoonLess water means fewer wetlands dry out over time, and birds are forced to look elsewhere to sustain themselves—if they can.
View ArticleBecker: Finding the Green Connection
By Rebecca WalshBecker was front and center when the oil pipeline burst in Red Butte Canyon, spewing 55,000 gallons of raw crude into the creek and Liberty Park's pond in June and December of 2010.
View ArticleEnvironmental Arts
By Brian StakerLisa Miller uses materials like blown bike innertubes to create urban-chic wallets, belts and purses.
View ArticleJailhouse Rocked
By Jim CatanoPeaceful Uprising is celebrating Earth Day by conducting a free, open-to-all, nonviolent political-action training seminar April 21-22.
View ArticleThe Green 13
By Jessica Baker The word “green” used to conjure up memories of St. Patrick’s Day or of Kermit the Frog; today, green is much more of a movement, an ideology and even a marketing ploy. Often paired
View ArticleGreen Guide 2012
By City Weekly StaffYes, a truly Green Guide wouldn’t be printed in 60,000 papers and distributed all over Utah—the irony isn’t lost on us. At least it’s on recycled paper; every little bit helps.
View ArticleGreen Guide 2013: Bird Land
By Lexie LevittRosalie Winard’s photographs of birds are dramatic, timeless and a little otherworldly. Her subjects, wetland birds like great egrets and American white pelicans, often take on qualities...
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